Description
Promotional price is the bruto price including 21% VAT.
Store your own solar power for later use or sale
The battery charges and discharges based on dynamic energy prices
Installation not needed, just plug in and connect with wifi
Real-time insight into your system in the app
Works with any brand of solar panel system
Even without solar panels you benefit from cheap energy prices
Most safe battery technology (LiFePo4, LFP)
Adjustments to the meter cupboard, pulling cables or structural adjustments are not included;
With this advanced plug-in system you can optimize your energy usage and reduce dependence on the electricity grid.
The battery has a weight of 2 x 24 kg and can be stacked till 4 units in total. The inverter is included in the battery, ensuring efficient energy transfer and minimal energy losses.
Each battery system is compact with dimensions of 400 mm x 300 mm x 200 mm and a weight of 24 kg. The battery stack has a capacity of 5.4 kWh, allowing you to store excess energy generated by solar panels. At times when there is no energy production, you can use the stored energy to cover your own energy consumption, making you less dependent on the electricity grid and further reducing energy costs.
The 5.4 kWh 1 Phase System is recommended for households with an average annual consumption of up to approximately 3500 kWh. With the integrated inverter the plug-in battery can work together with all solarpanel system installed. In addition, this system provides backup power, ensuring that important equipment continues to operate during power outages and daily routines can continue uninterrupted.
Installation
The Gridbuilder’s smart battery solution works both without and in combination with solar panels. If you already have solar panels, the battery will be added as a ‘retrofit installation’. The system is added to an existing solar panel system. This allows you to store the excess energy and use or sell it later. A ‘retrofit installation’ can be applied to all brands of solar panel inverters, so we can read all models and brands.
We determine in advance where it is best to place the battery. Outdoor setups are also possible in a special outdoor cabinet. The final installation will take a full day, depending on the situation.
Control subscription
With this battery solution you immediately save on your energy bill by ‘trading’ electricity on the various energy markets and you contribute to balancing the supply and demand of electricity on the grid. The software ensures that electricity is purchased at the cheapest hours of the day and sold at the most expensive hours, based on a dynamic energy contract. Because netting is currently allowed in the Netherlands, the home battery yields the most in this way.
As soon as netting stops, the algorithm automatically adjusts to first charging with your own solar power – supplemented with charging at the cheapest hours from the grid. This is then used to get your meter towards zero! In addition, surpluses from our own generation and from the grid for the meter (the electricity grid) will be traded. This way you always have the cheapest electricity and the optimal efficiency of the day, even in the winter months.
Even without solar panels you can save a lot on your energy bill and you can be part of a larger network.
Monthly terminable
The Gridbuilder provides the control service via a free ‘entry-level’ subscription. We maintain and develop the algorithm every day, so that the most out of the home battery is obtained. As long as the subscription runs, the battery system is actively controlled and the app can monitor the total amount generated, purchased, used, sold and earned. The Gridbuilder control is connected to the local Wi-Fi network via a hardware box.
Warranty
Due to daily use of the battery, it loses a very small amount of power over the years, so slightly less capacity remains. The minimum capacity that the battery must have after a certain use is stated in the warranty. The batteries have the following warranty, whichever comes first:
- After 10 years, at least 80% of the original capacity remains.
- minimum 6000 charging cycles up to 10000 cycles (depending on brand); during active charging and discharging, an average of 1.5 cycles are run per day. This means a lifespan of 11 years with a warranty of 6000 cycles.
Parameters are incorporated into the control that protect the battery against unnecessarily rapid wear.
